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"Where envy is unavoidable it must be used as a stimulus to one's own efforts, not to the thwarting of the efforts of rivals."
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"Live a life that will make you look back in old age at your life and grin in satisfaction."
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"When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take advantage of time."
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Personal Development
"The problem with dreams is that they are always futuristic and gives a deceptive impression that there is still enough time to actualize them. The tragedy, however, is that you soon realize that the time you thought you had to fulfill the dreams had melted away before your very eyes."
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"I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia."
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Personal Development
"Find the willpower to begin work."
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"Lack of confidence is stunting if it stops us from achievement."
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"Take this short time that you have on earth and convert it into greatness."
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Personal Development
"Every one of us has been called to be an actor in the drama of life and everyone has a role to play as well."
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Personal Development
"Dare to make major changes to reach your newly discovered destiny."
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"Create time for yourself... There are 24 hours in a day... Outline the number to spend on your dreams every day!"
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"In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics."
Struggle
"You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application."
Reasoning
"One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor."
Governance
"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."
Food
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
Intelligence
"Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"
Knowledge
"Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
Wisdom
"Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic."
History
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
Evil
"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."
Woman
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